DBMS > Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. GeoMesa vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#126	Overall
	#23	Document stores
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

drill.apache.org

www.geomesa.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.intersystems.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

CCRi and others

InterSystems

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2014

1997

2016

2012

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

5.0.1, July 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Java

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Depending on the underlying data source

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles

yes

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